Shuffle an XMLList

February 2, 2011 by fMajakovskij

If you have an XMLList object and want to shuffle its elements, simply use the following function.
This is pretty useful when you are loading an xml file and want to randomize its elements, i.e. a list of images.

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Flash XML Gallery from scratch – part 3

January 14, 2010 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript, Flash

Now it’s time to see something on screen.
The third part of this tutorial will cover the interface elements and the basic transition between images….

Adobe Air: Application Log made easy

January 10, 2010 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript, Air

This is a simple class that let you add to your Adobe Air application a simple logging system.
Sometimes there’s need to log the application activity outside the authoring environment or for long time.
This class comes to cover this need….

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Flash XML Gallery from scratch – part 2

January 2, 2010 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript, Flash

Here the second part of the tutorial about the creation of an XML Flash Gallery.
Now we’ll see how to load all the images and place them on the stage….

Flash XML Gallery from scratch – part 1

December 22, 2009 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript, Flash

This is the first of a series of quick posts on how to create, step by step, from scratch a xml flash gallery.

The first thing you need to do is to create the xml file.
Just open a simple text editor and write down some tags…

WordPress XML-RPC and Actionscript 3.0

December 14, 2009 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript

A while ago I stumbled upon this nice ActionScript 3.0 library to work with the Wordpress XML-RPC calls.
It does extends the more abstract XML-RPC AS3 library brought from Akeem Philbert.

I did decide to give it a try…

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Adobe Air: Save to JPG and PNG helper class

December 2, 2009 by fMajakovskij

Air

Based on my previous tutorial on how to save a Jpeg image from a DisplayObject, I’m releasing an helper class to do the same thing with a couple of lines of code.

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Adobe Air: add NativeMenuItem to existing NativeMenu

by fMajakovskij

Air

If you want to add just a single (or more) NativeMenuItem on the your existing NativeMenu, you can do it without recreate all the NativeMenu structure.

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Air Updater made easy, with scheduling

November 25, 2009 by fMajakovskij

Air

If you are developing an Air application, you should to know how it is important to use the great automatic update process provided by the Air framework. Having the option to fix some bugs or give more features to your users, with a seamless process, is quite amazing.

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